Word: homeland
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...then sleep on the cutting table," she says. This year she wrote her senior thesis at Scripps College in Claremont, Calif., on garment workers. "This is my parents' dream," she says. "This is America. America gives rights to women that would be unattainable if we were back in our homeland...
Today Davidovich, 56, is recognized in her adopted country as a leading international pianist, acclaimed for her fluent, elegant interpretations of Schumann and Chopin. Unlike those Soviet emigres who left their homeland seeking greater personal freedom and artistic success, Davidovich came to the U.S. for only one reason: to be with her son, Violinist Dmitry Sitkovetsky, 30, who left the Soviet Union in 1977 to study at the Juilliard School in New York. "My son is my life," explains the quintessential Jewish mother, a widow since 1958. "I couldn't live without seeing...
...heard on the streets and indeed in many offices and shops. A Hispanic in need of a haircut, a pair of eyeglasses or legal advice can visit a Spanish-speaking barber, optometrist or lawyer. In the barrios of Los Angeles, an Argentine can watch the latest movies from his homeland at any of a dozen theaters, while a Guatemalan can find a soccer league composed entirely of players from the country he left. In Chicago, says Ariel Zapata, a journalist who emigrated from Colombia last year, "it is possible to live, work and play without speaking any English...
Immigrant journalism is often colored by homeland politics. San Francisco's eight Chinese-language papers tend to side with either Taiwan or the People's Republic. The Haiti Observateur, a Brooklyn, N.Y.-based weekly with a circulation of 45,000, was founded in 1971 as a challenge to Francois ("Papa Doc") Duvalier, the country's self-appointed President for Life. All but one of California's 24 Vietnamese papers excoriate Hanoi, while the Philippine News, with 73,000 readers, opposes Ferdinand Marcos...
Scion of an aristocratic Cuban family, he studied chemical engineering at Yale and, after returning to his homeland in 1954, took a job with the Coca- Cola Co. Goizueta came to the U.S. permanently in 1961 to escape the Castro regime and counts himself one of the lucky Cuban refugees: "I had an education and a job." He became a citizen in 1969. Named president of Coca- Cola in 1980 and chairman of the board a year later, Goizueta, 53, now runs one of the most multinational of multinational corporations; other top officers are from Argentina, Germany, Italy and Mexico...